Consider what flowers perennials can be used for the garden: unpretentious, long-flowering, beautiful, pleasing to the eye, so that once you have planted a flowerbed, it should not be transplanted for several years. Of course, it is possible to plant in the gamut of a perennial flowerbed every year some bright one-year-olds, which will add a touch of novelty in the eye that has become familiar to us over the years of the flowerbed.
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Perennials can be grouped into groups - tall, medium, low, shade-loving and growing only in the sun, indifferent to the soil or requiring rich, fertile soil, dry-resistant or moisture-loving, blooming long and plentifully, all summer, the second half or only at the beginning of the season . Here we’ll try to arrange flowers in such groups and make it easier for you to choose what, nevertheless, will suit your site more.
Flowerbeds can be formed from different species - start with stunted ones, then plant medium ones. Closer to the fence - tall handsome men plant. You can pick varieties so that some begin to bloom early, from May, the second baton is picked up by the middle of summer, and the third from the middle until the very frosts still continue to please the eye. And choosing so, your flower beds from May to October will flaunt on your site and delight your eyes, causing the envy of your neighbors - what a luxurious flower bed you have!
Shady Perennials
If your site is located in such a way that there is a lot of shade on it - do not worry, you can plant the shaded part with beautiful perennials, and they will delight you with beauty and aroma. These include:
- Astilba, beautiful and gorgeous. She is ready to decorate the entire shady part of your garden with her magnificent flowering. Moreover, you can pick up this type of plant from undersized to meter, from white to red flowers. This beauty begins to delight the eye with flowering from June to mid-August.
- The hosta is a wonderful couple of astilbe, with beautiful decorative dense leaves, which in themselves are an ornament. The host blooms a little with small white little bells. The host is not high, grows up to 60 cm.
Blooming perennials all summer
- Hybrid Helenium - this beauty is the longest blooming, from the whole abundance of varieties you can add a whole picture, picking them up so that they begin to bloom cheerfully from the very beginning of summer, and until the fall will delight the eye. Love the sun and plentiful watering, it is possible to plant on any soil, in any place of a garden. Height varies from 70 cm to 1 meter.
- Yarrow is truly a flowering champion! As he begins to dissolve his flowers in June, he will not stop until the end of September.
- Sage is another record holder for the duration of flowering, and it also smells so that you go out into the garden and you close your eyes with pleasure! In addition - these two plants are useful, so - definitely in the forefront of long-flowering perennials!
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Autumn blooming perennials
- Japanese autumn anemone (penumbra) - simply revive your autumn garden with stunning colors of white, pink, red, and all shades. Beginning in August, the anemone will delight a half-empty garden for a long time, and cause a truly delight. But - she needs rich soil and partial shade.
- Magnificent geranium (partial shade) - it doesn’t last very long with flowers, only in June, but then its leaves become so beautiful that instead of flowers they decorate the site, moreover, all summer, painted in muted red tones.
The most unpretentious perennials
- Kotovnik — catnip can be safely classified as such — is suitable for the most lazy and busy housewife. It looks like lavender, it can replace it in a harsh climate, it doesn’t care about the illumination and quality of the soil, it is not whimsical at all, it doesn’t bother with disease, dividing perfectly, after flowering, you can trim the bush and it will bloom again.
- The cuff is another completely unpretentious perennial, both for catnip and cuff all for nothing - whether the sun, shade, rich soil or dead wood - it will withstand all. It is only necessary to cut the cuff immediately after flowering, otherwise it will displace all your flowers from the flowerbed.
- Stonecrop - a beautiful flowering bush. Decorates the site in the fall and winter, take a look at this not whimsical handsome man. Loves the sun and sandy soils.
Finally, we add to all of the above: the stem-rose beauty, the spotted window-bud - bright and unpretentious, the loosened sunflower, cornflower, rudbeckia, daylily and peony, phlox, monard and cornflower, pansies, phlox and gentian, tenderloin and gypsophila bloodroot. All of them will become an undoubted decoration of your garden!
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